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B4evaKool "race a motorcycle" Podcast Ep. 07 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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  Welcome back to another edition of the be forever.
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  Cool podcast with TJ from two wheels and coffee.
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  What's going on man? What's going on?
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  It's went to life ready for bike life.
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  It's coming soon. Yeah, and not much going on now.
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  Just just thinking about bikes, that's all apparent working
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  every day feels like That's about it.
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  Yeah. So I can get on the two whales.
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  Yeah man. You know the winters are tough
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  beat because you can't ride. I mean you know some days I do
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  get out because I have heated gear and I try to get as much
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  time on but it's it's not the same, you know, when you're out
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  when you're riding definitely feel good for sure because it's
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  better than not right in. But, you know, we would love
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  that the the warm weather, right?
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  Just like I feel This way every winter like the past, you know,
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  the years. I've been riding not a good
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  time. Yeah.
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  And, and, and, you know, we want to talk about a little bit later
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  on in the show. How do you, how do we pass?
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  Our Winters here in the North East versus, you know, when the
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  season kicks off and we can, you know, you do stuff, get out and
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  play, three a lot to talk about today.
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  In, in, in the, in the world of motorcycle racing and we'll kind
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  of talk the talk about, you know, some of the, some of the
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  clubs that are out there, you know?
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  So let's talk about, you know, we started in New Hampshire.
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  I started with the, the penguin motorcycle school, but Loudon,
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  New Hampshire to obtain or racing license.
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  In a point going to the penguin School is A part of the lrs back
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  then, right. Which is a laden road racing
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  think and then they switched it to name our are so it's
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  Northeast motorcycle recent. So that's the motorcycle club,
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  that one part of and along with that I've seen some other clubs
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  racing with this club such as like Tony track days.
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  Some clubs from New York but yeah, how did you start?
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  Yeah, I mean I started the same way.
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  And then, you know, so then you know, back then though it was it
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  was ccs and azra. Llars was just one of the
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  regions in the CCS azra, Siri club club essentially.
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  And, and since then, that's pretty much the the, you know,
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  once Neymar broke off. I guess, you know, dentists,
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  like, with two clubs, I've done some track days at at Tony Tony
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  track day, as well. And then, you know, this year,
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  you know, this clubs like you know where it is, there's clubs
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  like a HMR, a there's a, there's a, you know, AMA, there's a lot
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  of clubs across this country. We can go race in order to
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  attract day. Yeah, I have some friends that
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  that was what the was an AMA that try to watch a lot of
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  YouTube and I see some guys that are from that.
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  The northeast or u.s. doing the professional side of that but
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  the only Club I knew since I'm just new to it it's just a never
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  mind. Neymar right now, right.
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  Try to see if I can prove myself, maybe get a part of some
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  other clubs because contains more licenses.
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  Yeah and it's pretty easy because once once you have once
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  you have a license from one of the clubs and you have proof of
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  that, you took the class. It's you just Staring at these
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  other clubs and then you just shown that proof you don't
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  necessarily have to go through, you know, taking a track day,
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  the day before and stuff like that.
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  You can just to learn to track it with the new track, but you
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  don't necessarily have to eat, but I just do a practice Day to,
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  you know, so it's definitely a lot of clubs to get out there.
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  There's clubs to get you out on the west coast.
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  One day, I'm hoping to go race at Laguna Seca.
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  So that's why I joined a HMR a To to get out there and even
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  even we were just to just, you know, race at different tracks
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  like bobber and some of these other tracks Mid-Ohio on these
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  places that, you know, I haven't been to yet.
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  So the best way to get around to race at different tracks is but
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  you know, joining different clubs.
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  Yeah. So you gotta definitely have all
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  your tools ready to travel is that Laguna Seca is far.
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  That is what a dream track. I want to go to as well, heard
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  they re doing Doing everything. It's so I race that track on and
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  on PlayStation and watching online, right?
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  Yeah, watch Moto America race there.
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  So looks like a fun track it. That's it does look like a fun
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  track and and so I hope to I mean they're all fun.
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  I can't say I've had you know, you might, you might have your
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  favorites, I guess at some point but I think they're all kind of
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  fun. Well, I didn't know when we
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  first started racing that when you got me into it, is that you
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  can race A different race tracks.
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  That was a like a plus to me and I was like, oh, that's pretty
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  cool. So I need to do this because I
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  do want to try other tracks. And Laguna steak is very
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  interesting. I'm glad you brought that one
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  up. Yeah, no doubt.
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  So you know we were talking before the before the before the
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  show and you know you know going to the track and being a new
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  Rider and stuff like that, you know, there's there's you know
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  there's different tire brands that you you're going to have to
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  get and you know, like Like you just started and you're the boys
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  throat. It's going on the third season.
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  And you have tried a different few different brands.
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  And how do you feel about like different brands and you have
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  favorites? Well, I can stand.
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  And how did you pick that favorite?
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  Well, On the street I was like the norm.
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  So I went with like the Michelin Pilot Powers always had like the
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  palette power to choose and I was just so comfortable with
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  that tire. I didn't like any other Tire, I
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  felt like I can leave pretty well on that tire.
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  And then when it came to the track, the tires that were
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  already set up for the bike where the bridgestone's some
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  like, oh well, I guess I'll just have to figure this tire out
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  and, you know, it went pretty well and Since You Know, Rich
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  tone is hard to get, it's just a good opportunity to try another
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  tire. So at the track, there's a
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  Pirelli guy. So that was just a another
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  choice. I started and the tires been
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  good so far. I've been getting help with
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  getting them so and it's a good way to try it out.
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  I want to try to Michelin is as well, but apparently she's also
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  been so now, good hot right now. So between the new Pirellis and
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  and, and the Bridgestone The heavy note as a new Rider, do
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  you see the, Can You Feel the difference?
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  I'm still actually trying to get the feeling.
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  I do. See a difference actually, when
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  I first put on the tires, going into turn one.
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  The front felt like almost lost. It was just a little different,
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  like, lean angle, but there's so many different tire choices for
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  Pirelli, which I makes it makes it pretty cool, right?
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  Yeah. Like you can choose like what?
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  Like that down the Temperature outside.
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  And you know the patient running instead of just having you know
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  just one sort of set like a soft or front soft or you know,
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  medium or hard on the front or back right.
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  And the other brands that do have that, that option is well
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  and I know I know there's going to be folks in the comments
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  saying, you know, there's other brands.
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  So look at the other brands as well.
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  But these new, these new Pirellis, I haven't tried them.
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  But everyone in the paddock that we were at or around in Loudon
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  and not just Loudon, a loving him, a loving these new Pirellis
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  and and how much crap they have. Yeah, so so now you're hoping to
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  try to Mitchell ins just because you want to try a different
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  tires or I mean you know, see how it goes Pirelli, is the the
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  choice as of right now, okay? Okay, so you're not gonna eat
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  your pudding. Pearly, stickers on the bike for
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  the foreseeable future until until something, either is
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  better or better. Deal comes along.
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  We know, I'm so there was a time I was at the track and there's
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  like, I think there's SC One or SC2.
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  Everyone runs. Yep.
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  And they didn't have a vailable for the rear.
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  So I'm like, oh, so if you need a new tire like, what do you do?
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  So that's it was like, oh it just get it Michelin because the
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  Michelin guy there, too. So yeah, you never know.
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  I might have to run into a situation like that and you know
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  hopefully I don't want to do that to mess with this
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  oppression and stuff and and, you know, I will say this, we
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  are talking about going from Tire brand to tie a brand to tie
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  a brand. And, you know, You do have to
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  get your suspension setup for every time you change tires.
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  So I don't want anyone to think that.
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  Oh, you can just swapped. I swapped eyes.
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  You do have to get your suspension setup because your
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  suspension is based on the tire, it's not solely, but based on
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  the tire running tire size and a manufacturer as well.
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  So, if you do try different brands.
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  Finally suspension guy, have them make the adjustments for
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  you and keep it moving. So, I actually didn't make any
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  adjustments from the bridgestone's to the The
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  Pirellis. No, I know you didn't but you
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  supposed I know. So I was talking a lot of people
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  and neighbors like you shouldn't feel much of a difference and
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  there's a couple corners where you felt more of a bump or
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  whatever but really not much of a difference, right?
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  And feel like I got a little faster but I think an hour Pace
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  it you not going to feel you're not going to notice the
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  difference. I mean I think but on when
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  you're running on it on the edges your they're getting them
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  set up. Again, this is the only track
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  I've been to, so it could play a part in a different, you know,
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  track. So let's see how that goes.
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  But yeah, I'm loving the Pirellis right now.
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  Nice nice. Yeah.
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  I started, you know, I started on SV with dunlop's and I think
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  I went to Pirelli after dunlop's on because I was running
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  Pirellis on the street and you know the dunlop's I was running
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  came with the bike. So I kind of you know, it's not
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  like it was my choice and I'm not, I love Dunlop tires for
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  Carmela's Ours. Because so I'm not saying I
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  don't like dunlop's, but I tried Pirellis and, and I enjoyed a
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  Pirellis, a lot. And when I switched bikes, I
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  still ran power pearlies on my on our six.
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  And you know, I always had movement on the pearlies I had
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  back then coming out coming out of turn, three going up the hill
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  and so I end up switching to Mitchell ins because a lot of
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  you know Jesse was running Mitchell.
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  Ins a lot of guys around there was running Mitchell ins and and
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  I love the Michelin and and I pretty much been running on my
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  switch to Bridgestone 44-minute Monica, just cut costs But the
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  mentioned the bridgestone's were very similar to the to the to
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  the to the Mitchell ends. And you know, then I switch back
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  to to Mitchell ends after that. And everything I've been running
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  Mitchell has ever since, and I'm on defense this year because
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  action probably going to stay with Michelin and even though a
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  lot of people run into Pirellis, I you know they work you know I
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  mean and and so I am going to stick with them until until they
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  don't work for me anymore I suppose or I gotta go.
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  A good Pirelli deal or something like that.
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  Hey guys, stop there with the, a strong go to it which, you know?
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  Yeah. At this point, you know, I mean
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  because, you know, if if I was having issues with them and in
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  the tracks and different tracks and stuff like that, if I was
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  just another day been pretty consistent.
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  And, you know, so we'll see they're about the tire feel.
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  So like I realized like on the street, you have a choice of
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  Tire. We're feels comfortable, but do
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  you know how it really works? And I realized on the track
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  side, you really figure out a tie. you know, coming out of
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  Corners, like you said, you get a couple of slippage is here
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  there, you know, you know, throughout the race could see
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  like when it's wearing off, you know, so think, you know,
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  breaking in a tire on the track is very important so you can
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  figure out what tire you like, that's how I'm the the, like I
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  said that the bridgestone's I had a couple storages here and
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  there and then when I went to the Pirellis, I had a lot going
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  into turn Three right there. Also weren't like brand new
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  tires and it's just all about figuring out, you know, how much
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  power to put into it. But everyone says, oh, no,
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  that's good then, you know, just give him a little more throttle,
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  you know, right. Right there.
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  They'll stick. That's they say it's and and
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  they've been sticking so far. They're mistaken so far.
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  Yeah, there you go, you know, along with tires, you know,
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  make, you know, obviously, I bring ties to the track but, you
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  know, travel with an air pump. You know, it, you know,
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  sometimes, you know, or compress or whatever the case may be, you
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  know, battery-operated join, you have to take some air out of the
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  tire. You're going to put some air in
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  the tire. I've seen guys with bike pumps.
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  It's very whatever you could use for air and if you could just
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  have a gauge to check the with the level is, you know, I'm
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  always impressed with the guys with the pump.
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  I tried it. The the bicycle pump, I tried
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  it. I, you know, I think you get a
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  pretty good reading. From that from that.
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  But that's a lotta. That's a lot of energy to expel.
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  And then go out and and then go ride, I've settled for the
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  rechargeable. You know, tire pressure tire
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  pump and, and, and, and just a tire pressure gauge to check it
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  now Tire. Warmers have you, you know,
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  like, you know, what do you thought so, you know what I want
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  because you're still getting, you know, I think you and your
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  first brand but you got to get even Good brand.
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  Yeah, I got the chicken. Hawk was my first brand when I
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  started with the Slicks and they actually worked really well.
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  The, the what I like about them is they have the temperature
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  control, which I think is really important, right?
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  A lot of Tire warmers will have just one temperature to keep
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  them hot. I don't know what the degrees
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  is. Maybe like 80 120 something like
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  that. I think it depends I guess
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  either one setting ikey. I think it's like 160 or
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  something. We can we can look it up but I
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  think is how I because I keep my settings around 170 here, so 174
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  on my tie. Warm is so yeah there's a lot of
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  different ones. So I just have a high and low.
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  Like my high goes up to I think 170 or 180 and then they will
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  shut off and, you know, keep them at that temperature into
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  ready to use and then the location.
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  I think is 120. Yeah 120 or no.
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  I think it's a little higher than don't know.
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  Didn't 120. Yeah you should definitely look
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  it up. You know, my first my first set
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  was gifted to me so I it was like one setting and she was
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  such a new Rider. You're not that I wasn't, you
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  know, pushing that hard and then the second set I got it was used
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  and used chicken hawk. Do you know?
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  So they and and they had a digital temperature so I can set
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  it to whatever. I'd like you know and you know I
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  will say that Whit would you know the settings that you can
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  you can manipulate, you know, it's always good to check your
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  tire. Manufacture whoever whoever is
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  selling at the, you know, that day.
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  They can tell you what pressure, you should be running and
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  probably what you're tired woman should be and all that fun stuff
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  and even when you should turn them all like an hour before, or
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  whatever, depending on the brand and stuff like that because you
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  know, some people, you know, not every Thai warm, you're going to
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  leave on your tire all day. Some users, you just got to put
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  on like an hour before, so that way you don't overcook, the tire
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  as well. Yeah, try to put it on, at least
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  45 minutes to an hour before. You know, just to get them, get
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  them ready right? You want to overcook, the tire
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  either. So sometimes I might put their
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  the rear one on high and then the front window and low right
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  Ryan halfway through. I'll just do the front one back
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  on High Country. Let's just write this tires but
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  you know, I didn't know. There's like you can't go
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  through a lot of heat Cycles as well.
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  Correct. That's what I was just going to
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  say that. That that is a good thing where
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  I got to keep track. I'll get Heats like yeah and
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  bring the bring a notebook like I said and a heat cycle
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  centuries when you you heat your tires up and they cool down so
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  and and and that's what you want to keep track of because too
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  many heat Cycles. The tile I will come slippery
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  even if it feels like it's new. Yeah yeah exactly.
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  So you definitely want to keep track of that.
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  You also want to keep track of how many laps you do want to
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  Tire. You need to do.
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  Yeah, you know you definitely want.
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  You know, you know, get you, whatever digital notebook or or
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  or you know, paper, but you want to keep track of how many laps
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  you doing the tires, you know, with with practice sessions and
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  races and you doing certain races, you know, the eighth lap
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  races is kind of easy to figure out.
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  So it's not like, you know, but if you know practice sessions,
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  you kind of have to do that. But at least in the race, you
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  know, because you know how many laps you did.
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  Yeah. So I can get a little quick
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  story about having old tires. Let's say that, you know, try To
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  hold on, you know, just you just concern yourself doing laughs
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  trying to save a tire. And you know, I went down and
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  told people how long I had the tire and they were like me
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  crazy. Yeah, and you know, the fact,
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  the tire felt fine and I knew that I could probably handle the
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  pace. I was running.
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  But as you know, you get more experience.
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  You trying to keep up and you moving faster but I just
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  couldn't hold out anymore and I didn't really keep track of how
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  many laps I did on the tire. It was kind of how many sessions
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  Ends. And then I was like, all right,
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  kind of doing the math. How many sessions I did and how
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  many laughs and I'm like, alright, I done over 100 Laps on
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  this tire. Wow.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It wasn't good.
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  And from, from then, that's when I was very particular about
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  tires. Now that's why I like Pirelli
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  and options that they give you in and just, you know on one
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  hand. It I find this kind of good to
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  be on one tires and riding on what size, you know, it.
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  It can shoot because if you do it endurance race or anything
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  like that, you know, how to finish the race.
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  Yeah, you know, you know how to, you know, manage the race a
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  little bit better, you know, it's like riding in the rain,
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  you know, those things kind of go hand in hand.
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  Sometimes just going out there and and you know and I think in
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  the field it's the only Advantage is riding on worn.
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  Tires is if it says doing 25 laps and stuff like that, I
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  don't know how I feel at the end, but if you do the 180, use
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  the GTOs, you know, you know, you might get 20.
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  Send depended on the track but yeah, you always gotta check
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  your tires. Make sure there have some meat
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  on them and just know how to use them through the corners, you
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  know? No doubt, no doubt.
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  Then the, you know, we did we we've covered a lot in in the
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  episodes that we've done so far, but we really haven't touched on
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  on helmets, you know, and kind of how, how, how to, you know,
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  would you know? It's one thing you know, when
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  you, when you're sitting here Thinking about I got my suit, I
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  got get all these things and blah, blah blah.
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  And it's like, okay. I like that helmet and then and
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  then you go there and and and, and what's your experience been
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  like so far, you know, when you go to go get the helmet, you
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  want to get? Well, the helmet that I have is
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  agv and every time I go there, like all get a showy, it's
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  easier to like find the tag or when it's like, you know, the
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  date that it's like good until but I had a icon.
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  Helmet and think scorpion. My first one right Icon helmet
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  was just way too heavy. Hmm once I found the agv and
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  house off the cushion was and I light it was and it just fit my
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  head perfectly. I just love that brand and you
• 21:14
  know everyone's favorite Riders Rossi you know he has a lot of
• 21:19
  designs. Yeah on the street riding you
• 21:21
  know, I thought this is eyes were cool so I always had a cool
• 21:24
  design helmets. And then when I got to the
• 21:27
  track, that's what I brought and they're like yeah you need the
• 21:31
  easy eject, you need this. So I'm like up ching.
• 21:37
  Ching, ching ching. Right, right so I got the easier
• 21:40
  Jack put it in but now I stick with the agv.
• 21:44
  I think that how much we good fit for myself and A lot of
• 21:49
  people use showy or rye which are real racing helmets would
• 21:54
  say well, I mean even though good racing helmet manufacturers
• 22:02
  who want to make race helmets but the you know cos y zg v
• 22:06
  cause like you know you're spending over a grand for a nice
• 22:10
  racing helmet right now. A nice show.
• 22:12
  We are awry, you spending over 600 all 600 but you know people
• 22:17
  like the designs as well. If you Not into that, right?
• 22:20
  Yeah, I I'm a fan of AVG. Sadly, my head is not a fan of
• 22:27
  PG because I can't fit into one of those helmets and be
• 22:31
  comfortable and so, you know, is showy and so I'ma show you guys
• 22:38
  because it fits and honestly, I like them now.
• 22:44
  So but maybe one day I'll get a AVG just to, to have it, you
• 22:48
  know? Sitting on my my wall is
• 22:50
  something like that. But you know, when you go, when
• 22:53
  you go to get your helmet, you know, you might have your heart
• 22:57
  set on something and it may not fit all the costs may not fit,
• 23:01
  you know, let me know. It may not even be a racing
• 23:04
  helmet debts, you know, qualified to be to go on the
• 23:06
  track. So do some research, a beautiful
• 23:09
  thing about the internet as you can you don't have to leave your
• 23:11
  house to get disappointed. You can figure out what you can,
• 23:15
  what you can get and it's best to go get it.
• 23:17
  Go get fitted. The old And and go into a race
• 23:20
  shop, then didn't just order online, unless you're, you know,
• 23:22
  you're good at measuring yourself.
• 23:24
  Yeah, I got some helmet and race advice.
• 23:27
  Get fog Shield. Yeah, I still need to get one
• 23:31
  myself. I've been on the track and my
• 23:35
  advisors he's locked up. Get your eyes open a little bit.
• 23:37
  Try to get some air in there. The only time to do that is like
• 23:40
  on the straightaway for like one second.
• 23:43
  Yeah and you're lucky you kind of know the track.
• 23:47
  You can kind of get around but And the crazy part.
• 23:50
  What will show you? Anyway, it comes with your
• 23:51
  helmet. Yes.
• 23:53
  So, you know, and I just must be the type of agv helmet that I'm
• 23:56
  getting. Uh-huh.
• 23:57
  It's not like the actual race got to the helmet.
• 24:00
  Yeah, you know, generic version. So if you get a visor, make sure
• 24:07
  you get that with the helmet. Make sure it's nice and tight.
• 24:10
  So you can shake your head, doesn't move, you know, right?
• 24:13
  Right. Nice.
• 24:16
  You know, all the things that we've been talking about so far
• 24:19
  Are, you know, Ty is Ty. Warm is, you know, pumps and
• 24:23
  helmets and all this stuff and it's very costly, right?
• 24:27
  So as a new Rider do you, do you, do you think you should
• 24:32
  consider getting into sponsorships and trying to find
• 24:35
  sponsors to help you know, cover some calls?
• 24:40
  So maybe give you some discounts on Parts.
• 24:43
  You know, what are your thoughts on on sponsors?
• 24:47
  Give getting a Sir. Well, I thought it was pretty
• 24:50
  cool. I mean I'm still new to, you
• 24:52
  know, how to get sponges and stuff like that and being a part
• 24:57
  of the race club, you have to kind of graduate first from a
• 25:01
  novice, you know, know how to ride the track and, you know,
• 25:05
  know all your points. And then once you get to an
• 25:07
  amateur, you're eligible for sponsorship.
• 25:09
  So I started off with Woodcraft, which are start trying to
• 25:14
  continue, and I got a vortex as well.
• 25:19
  So those are the two that I had and hindle exhaust, but try to
• 25:25
  reach out to some more places. No, get some more more help
• 25:30
  along the way to get some discounts on Parts.
• 25:32
  If you need them, because you won't need parts and need some
• 25:37
  help to continue racing because it is expensive.
• 25:40
  If you want to, you know, keep going down the line, right?
• 25:44
  And yeah. And for me, it's, I waited, I
• 25:46
  just, you know, I I didn't even think about it, really.
• 25:51
  I just kind of was just trying to become a better writer.
• 25:53
  And really I probably should have because, you know, what I
• 25:57
  realize is there, you know, companies that will give you
• 26:01
  discounts on parts or even, you know, give you free stuff and
• 26:06
  you know that can that can help it.
• 26:07
  So, you know, I'm I've started last year and this year and
• 26:12
  especially, you know, if you're somebody that falls a lot, you
• 26:14
  know, being able to get rich, you know, replacement parts at a
• 26:16
  discount is savings on you. You know, you do have to do
• 26:19
  things though. It's not like, they don't give
• 26:21
  you discounts, you don't, you have to be active on social
• 26:24
  media promoting their brand, you know.
• 26:27
  So you do have to be active. You don't necessarily have to be
• 26:29
  winning races or doing a thousand races, you just got to
• 26:33
  be active. I mean, there's even, you know,
• 26:35
  you know, local places that you can probably reach out that that
• 26:38
  might be fans of motorcycles. That might even, you know, throw
• 26:42
  those some do something, your way.
• 26:45
  I think it's cool, though, you know, when even when you know
• 26:47
  promoting it because you see, The new stuff is coming out with
• 26:50
  I'm like oh wow I didn't know they made that for this type of
• 26:52
  bike you know and if anyone's getting into writing even Street
• 26:58
  I would recommend these parts over anything else so it's good
• 27:03
  to share, definitely, you know, so ya know it.
• 27:07
  You know, it's definitely good to try to get out there and get
• 27:09
  sponsors, you know, doing these shows and stuff like that.
• 27:13
  You know, you know, we know now we got golf GoPros a sponsor
• 27:17
  and, and know so we could We get discounts off stuff and that's
• 27:20
  pretty good and we get to tell people to go, you know, they've
• 27:23
  got a GoPro and but we use them. So that's the thing and and you
• 27:27
  know, stuff that you use try to reach out to them.
• 27:31
  There is a website called hook it.
• 27:33
  I think they just got bought by another company is free to sign
• 27:36
  up. They do have premier stuff.
• 27:38
  You do you do, you do have access to sponsors through that
• 27:42
  but again, it's one of those things you have to be active
• 27:45
  with, you know, digital side of things, you know, getting
• 27:48
  getting Rose on your bike. You know, taking photos of your
• 27:51
  bike. Promoting your gear being active
• 27:53
  and doing these things. As you know, we have we have
• 27:56
  folks on one guy's going to have him, come on, you know, you can,
• 28:00
  you can, you know, as long as you're active on social media
• 28:05
  and promoting, you know, companies out there will see
• 28:09
  that, and they know the value in that who's not active on social
• 28:13
  media, nowadays should be, that should be easy.
• 28:18
  Yay, No, it should be easy. Yeah, you definitely should be
• 28:22
  easy, but it'll, you know, you gotta, you gotta put the time
• 28:25
  and so you know, you're not, you know, I'm not going to sit here
• 28:28
  and say how far you can get, but at least getting a discount on
• 28:30
  stuff, is better than paying full price.
• 28:34
  And if you're already active on social media, like TJ saying,
• 28:37
  then it's easy to, you know, you might as well just, you know,
• 28:42
  just, you know, you can learn how to do writer proposal
• 28:47
  online, you know, they've been just about everything is online.
• 28:51
  So you know, you can learn how to do it, put something together
• 28:54
  and reach out to some of these companies and you know, they'll
• 28:57
  check you out. Yeah, that's what I noticed.
• 28:59
  Also to actually sign up as Parts as you Most likely need a
• 29:05
  rider proposal. So yeah this easy to check
• 29:08
  online just you know tell it's just like a resume.
• 29:13
  You know of you ready? Yes.
• 29:16
  See what you can bring to the table and your goals and stuff
• 29:19
  like that. So that's good to set up, no
• 29:22
  doubt. And with that, you know, you
• 29:24
  have your sponsors, you got your bike, you got your tires, you
• 29:28
  got your gear, you know, it last thing you need is a way to get
• 29:33
  around. The track because you don't want
• 29:36
  to walk around a racetrack with your feet, unless you just
• 29:40
  really, really, really, really love walking.
• 29:42
  I did that the first time I went to the track just walking turn
• 29:46
  eight. Welcome to Tire one.
• 29:49
  You know, I'm like a, I'm not watching the next race.
• 29:51
  Just how I'll meet you back. Put your bike on a stick.
• 29:55
  It gets old, you know, one-wheeled thingamajiggy that's
• 29:59
  electrocute. Us a kick scooter.
• 30:02
  Electric Kick Scooter. Gasps Cooter bicycle, tricycle
• 30:09
  try motorcycle, whatever dirt bikes mini bikes but whatever
• 30:15
  that has wheels that's going to miss you easy.
• 30:19
  Oh yeah and and sometimes your will disappear in the show back
• 30:23
  up exactly. Everyone uses to get around but
• 30:26
  yes that doesn't. That's a part of it.
• 30:28
  I would say this if you let somebody use your bike once
• 30:33
  they're going to use. Your bike for the rest of the
• 30:36
  time you go trick or scooter scooter, whatever it is.
• 30:39
  It's like, it's like you said, go ahead.
• 30:40
  Take it that. Go ahead.
• 30:41
  Take it is infinite. So I remember, I have my bike,
• 30:45
  someone used my bike, so I use your scooter exam when I came
• 30:49
  back, the person will have my bike was back, but my bike was
• 30:52
  gone. Go somebody else.
• 30:54
  So that I wrote up to turn the bowl with the scooter, you know,
• 30:58
  I've got who had it, but I think it was Lloyd.
• 31:01
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 31:01
  I was like, you rode my bike up here cuz, you know, Bike is
• 31:04
  small. You know I bring it in pieces.
• 31:07
  Right as like one break. He's like oh thank God.
• 31:10
  I just wish up so I found my bike but you know you gotta have
• 31:14
  ways to get around. Definitely definitely have a
• 31:16
  good the bathroom washed times. It helps you at 3:00 in the
• 31:21
  morning I go to the bathroom kind of cool but it's better
• 31:24
  than walking. Oh yeah, especially if the back
• 31:27
  Loop is far away or weenie in the in the parking lot of
• 31:30
  setting up and they call for a meeting all the other side.
• 31:33
  Oh yeah. Not so, definitely have us some
• 31:35
  mode to get around. And I'm always, it's always cool
• 31:39
  to see what people come up with because there's some very
• 31:42
  creative first folks out there to be on Chinese scooters.
• 31:46
  Mopeds dirt bikes. Oh yeah.
• 31:50
  Motorcycles things that they've created it's beautiful to see
• 31:56
  what our skateboards. Oh yeah, definitely, you see it
• 32:01
  all man. So I think we touched on on, you
• 32:06
  know, he eating and staying hydrated but you know, we wanted
• 32:11
  to talk about it more because these diseases, you know, the
• 32:14
  day of race and, you know, definitely, you know, you know,
• 32:18
  try to stay hydrated as much as possible.
• 32:21
  And it's a cool thing about the club clubs aren't folks are
• 32:25
  walking around. Reminding you?
• 32:27
  Oh, yeah. You know, it's very important
• 32:30
  and you can get dehydrated, very quickly in one weekend, If
• 32:35
  you're not do not stay hydrated, you could wake up.
• 32:37
  He's bad. I'm like wow, I don't I didn't
• 32:39
  drink enough water it dehydrate just thinking about the day of
• 32:43
  racing. Yeah it's just it's even though
• 32:44
  you doing nothing, I'm definitely whatever your
• 32:47
  pleasure is, you know, whatever, do whatever, you know, Gatorade
• 32:50
  water, mixed whatever, you know, definitely stay hydrated and
• 32:55
  then plan your meals because, you know, this time that I've
• 32:58
  put off eating and it's just like, you know than incidents
• 33:02
  happening in your waiting for the track.
• 33:03
  And by Are you going you're going to get on a track as 3:00
• 33:06
  and you really haven't eaten anything Grand.
• 33:08
  And when you don't have, you know, your body at optimal, you
• 33:13
  know, strength, it's not fun out there.
• 33:14
  Now, you got to definitely make sure it's nothing heavy.
• 33:19
  Just enough to keep, you know yourself.
• 33:23
  Like float. Yeah, exactly everyone is
• 33:25
  different, you know? Yeah, everyone is different.
• 33:27
  So you know yourself you know is this folks that just do
• 33:30
  smoothies and they're good for a all day?
• 33:33
  There's other folks that you know you know I got you got to
• 33:35
  have a meal but I remember there was a time when yous going out
• 33:38
  there you're like it I can't do it at something I ate.
• 33:41
  Yeah yeah. Yeah I can't I don't think he'll
• 33:44
  make it around the track. No not exactly.
• 33:46
  You know I've had I've had yeah there's all type of things
• 33:49
  happen but I've had a few situations.
• 33:51
  Where is this like oh yeah. Yeah, that's going to come up.
• 33:54
  I gotta you gotta make sure you hydrate it for sure.
• 33:57
  You know you keep it like a granola bar a couple sandwiches
• 34:02
  you know like peanut butter and jelly something small, just the
• 34:05
  get you over through the end of the race day and make sure you
• 34:08
  never did a plan go right at it. No doubt.
• 34:13
  No doubt. I think, you know, that's it.
• 34:16
  I think for the show Almost, you know, this offseason is this
• 34:21
  offseason and in You know, you know what are some of the things
• 34:25
  that you, you try to, what are you doing?
• 34:28
  The things you're doing to get through to offseason?
• 34:31
  Just besides this podcast, prepare preparing to see what I
• 34:36
  can do to get like the bike service and getting all my
• 34:38
  equipment ready. It's hard budget and everything
• 34:41
  were bills through and stuff like that, but also trying to
• 34:47
  stay focused on the track. So like, you know, play video
• 34:49
  games in my downtime for like an hour or something like that.
• 34:53
  But also, you know, trying to get this going and I don't do
• 34:59
  too. I've been skiing, but I don't go
• 35:01
  skiing in the winter. Like most people, I don't do the
• 35:03
  ice racing, right? Well not don't haven't gotten to
• 35:07
  it yet. Yeah, with the right with the
• 35:08
  right crew, I know some people who do it, but, you know,
• 35:11
  there's a couple go-karts around.
• 35:13
  I've been trying to do that again.
• 35:16
  It just like a local meet up, then I'm tryna keep going.
• 35:19
  Hopefully put some information about that soon.
• 35:22
  Nice. You know, to supercharge or
• 35:26
  something like that. Right.
• 35:27
  Right. Yeah.
• 35:28
  I've been out racing folks around.
• 35:30
  Nice. Yeah.
• 35:31
  So I've been watching a lot of MotoGP reruns, essentially Orbit
• 35:37
  on that. You know, and and like BSB and
• 35:41
  motor America races, and, you know, I've been watching stuff
• 35:43
  like 2004 and 2005 and, you know, MotoGP stuff.
• 35:48
  And it's, you know, I've done that before, but it's cool to
• 35:52
  go. Re-watch these things and, and,
• 35:54
  and kind of like, you know, kind of get in perspective, like, you
• 35:58
  know, Valentino winning like five, you know, championships in
• 36:02
  a row like that, that like, you know, that what kind of rare,
• 36:07
  you know, you gotta figure out like why he's Rossi.
• 36:09
  Yeah. Like why everyone wear Jordans,
• 36:12
  like what did he do? You know, you know, seeing you
• 36:14
  know, young Nicky Hayden coming in at you know 2021 and and
• 36:19
  finding this way and and you know you know doing Ellen, I
• 36:23
  believe it was a 2005 because I think he finished third in 2005
• 36:27
  before he won the title in 2006. So you can kind of see, like
• 36:31
  from to, I think he came in 2002 if memory serves correctly and,
• 36:35
  and work his way up to the Repsol, Honda team and finished
• 36:39
  third in the championship, when Rossi won it in 2005 and the
• 36:43
  Cadence man. Yeah.
• 36:45
  And and, you know, so I've been doing that watching some, you
• 36:48
  know, I started getting into like, you know, BSB and watch
• 36:51
  British Superbike. And watching British Superbike
• 36:54
  and like I started watching even the European League FMI fim
• 36:59
  championship and and like a movie star.
• 37:02
  Those, you know, algebra gear from when he came into moto2
• 37:06
  last year. But the year before he was, he
• 37:09
  was tearing it up in the league and, and even like the
• 37:12
  Australian League there, the community Canadian.
• 37:14
  There's so many different championships out there for
• 37:17
  motorcycle racing and so, you know, been filling my time
• 37:22
  watching a lot of That a lot but I watch a race, you know,
• 37:25
  probably every day. I mean actually I've been in
• 37:28
  been also doing that myself watching races and the funny
• 37:31
  thing is before riding on the track like who would watch
• 37:35
  racing? I do I watch it when I was on TV
• 37:37
  or I wasn't really into it. Yeah.
• 37:39
  So I just started really watching racing probably like
• 37:42
  two thousand eighteen or nineteen.
• 37:44
  Yep. When I like had an idea to go on
• 37:46
  a track like I tried on a track suit around then like yeah my go
• 37:49
  on the track soon so I started watching racing again, you know.
• 37:53
  You want to get see how it is like especially when I you start
• 37:56
  writing, watch how to ride videos, right?
• 37:59
  And then I started watching it and following it by the year.
• 38:03
  So now that the offseason I have been going back and watching
• 38:06
  some old footage, which is pretty cool.
• 38:09
  Like, learn history. Yeah.
• 38:12
  See, see how it all came about. Like I said, you know,
• 38:14
  everyone's wearing Rossi's helmets and like Jordan.
• 38:17
  Yeah, everyone's running sneakers e.
• 38:20
  They want to see in Rossi and his late years and his 40s right
• 38:22
  in. You're going to see where you
• 38:23
  came from to. Yeah.
• 38:25
  Speaking of Jordan, I mean, Jordan was one of the last races
• 38:29
  and he rides motorcycles, but he always.
• 38:32
  He also had a race team back in the day.
• 38:35
  And, you know, it's pretty wild. The amount of people that that
• 38:38
  love motorcycles. You know, he followed you
• 38:40
  already, like way you ride bikes to.
• 38:42
  Yeah. He has his own teeth.
• 38:43
  Are definitely a big family man. Yeah.
• 38:46
  So, we're gonna wrap up the show and we'll say this, we, you
• 38:49
  know, where we got some, you know, we're going to be talking
• 38:52
  about EP a little bit more as as a season start with the with the
• 38:56
  wintertime with the test coming up and next month.
• 38:59
  And, you know, some to world superbike stuff as well.
• 39:02
  So we have a lot of cool things planned for be forever.
• 39:06
  Cool. Yeah.
• 39:08
  So motor America, you know, so some kids that we ride with that
• 39:12
  participating in Moto America so for sure and you're going to be
• 39:17
  holding it down talking about you know, been Gladdy and like
• 39:20
  teak T Hobbs and and These other Riders so haven't met all of
• 39:27
  them like personally but I've been around them at the track.
• 39:31
  This is another one that's going this year, Crossman Jacob.
• 39:37
  I think okay, okay, yep me Eli we might be doing some stuff.
• 39:42
  Okay. All right so it's a good to be
• 39:44
  around these guys kids fashion. Yeah.
• 39:46
  It's because there's very fast kids in our on a world.
• 39:51
  That's very fast kids. And it's so cool to see.
• 39:54
  It's cool to see guys. Like you, watch these kids on TV
• 39:57
  and see the kids potential on TV and I should be around my person
• 40:01
  seeing what they could do and you know they're just training
• 40:04
  with us and you know we're trying to get better from them.
• 40:07
  No doubt it's to be forever. Cool podcast, my name is Rex 45,
• 40:12
  my name is t.j. with 2000. Cough up piece Lisa